resistance to persistence

I just saw a link to some J2ME Ant tasks which included some tasks for setting up a J2ME app to run on PalmOS. It looks like MIDP for PalmOS has been available since April. I’m interested in creating apps for my Palm, but I’m not a GUI developer and it seems like a decent hurdle to get started in setting up the Emulator, getting everything setup in my IDE (IDEA). Does anyone have any suggestions on an easy way to get started? Any walkthrough code sample tutorials that I could actually install on my Palm? What’s the suggested workflow ? code, compile, move to emulator, try to run? Seems like a bit of a nightmare. A few months ago, Motorola had a free download for CodeWarrior Wireless Studio. Is that any easier to do the dev cycle with? I don’t care to create wireless apps (I’ve only got a Palm M505). What’s something I could create and actually use? Hmmm. Any suggestions on how to get started writing demo apps on a palm? Leave a comment.

Resources:

* J2ME Wireless Toolkit

* MIDP for PalmOS download

* MIDP2.0 Reference Implementation

* J2ME Docs

* Palm Emulator

* Using Ant to build MIDP apps

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